Example sentences of "[vb past] down in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 2 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 3 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 4 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 5 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 6 | The rope hung down in a corner of the room on the right-hand side of the fireplace . |
| 7 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |
| 8 | Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again . |
| 9 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 10 | She reached her mother 's in nearby Northumberland Street and broke down in a state of shock . |
| 11 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 12 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 13 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 14 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 15 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 16 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 17 | White 's body was found stabbed and weighted down in a lake near Cirencester in 1989 . |
| 18 | Fat Mrs Beatty entered and sat down in a corner beyond the screen . |
| 19 | Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with . |
| 20 | She sat down in a chair by the hearth . |
| 21 | She sat down in a chair by a table and as she had done once in Michael Swinton 's kitchen , put her head down on her folded arms and burst into tears of passionate gratitude . |
| 22 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |